Advanced technology is changing the way
we work. In medical transcription it has brought
significant changes in terms of productivity, and quality.
Where time saved is money earned, many medical transcription
service providers around the world are adopting newer
methods of enhancing productivity and output quality. More
and more medical transcriptionists, editors are taking
advantage of keystroke saving software programs and tools
to improve their performance and income in medical transcription
field. The latest generation of keystroke saving tools allows
Medical transcriptionists to give commands to their computers
to expand a few judiciously typed characters into strings
of common words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even
entire short repetitive reports. The intelligent use of
such methods has been shown to improve productivity, cut
production time by almost one-half to one-third in day to
day working of a medical transcriptionists. Besides improving
speed, output, these software tools have improved quality
and accuracy of the medical transcription reports
by minimizing the errors to the least.
A few of such software tools available are:
Word Expanders
There are a number of excellent productivity software or
programs available on the market today.
The scope and functionality of these offerings continues
to evolve and provide benefits.
InstantText- Textware
Solutions
MedPen - Emmaus
MedPen
MPWord - Emmaus
MedPen
QuickScript -
QuickScript
ShortCut - Healthcare
Technologies
Shorthand -
Office Soft, LLC
ShortKeys - Insight
Software Solutions
Smartype
- Narratek
WP
Medical - Productive Performance, Inc.
Medical spell checkers: Besides these text expanders, there
is a whole gamut of software’s for medical spell checkers.
A few of these are:
Dorland's
Electronic Medical Dictionary - W.B. Saunders
Merriam-Webster's
Medical Audio Dictionary - Merriam-Webster
Spellex - Spellex
Stedman's Electronic
Medical Dictionary - Stedman's
Complete
Medical / Pharmaceutical Spellchecker - Sylvan Software
Taber's Electronic Medical
Dictionary - Taber's
These medical transcription related dictionaries check the
spelling of the typed medical, pharmaceutical, and related
words.
Automated speech Recognition Software: A newer and most
innovative software to the whole medical transcription
industry as a whole is the speech recognition software,
where the software makes the report automatically after
hearing the dictated voice. Thought it is still in evolving
stage but over a period of time, it will surely become the
most sought after software for the medical transcription
industry and fraternity.
Some of them in use are
Boomerang -
Dictaphone
Dragon
Naturally Speaking - ScanSoft
Eloquently Speaking
- 21st Century Eloquence
IBM Via
Voice - IBM
MediTalk -
Voice Automated
Speech Power – DVI
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